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Batatus is one of the most primitive species in Dolicho- 
strophus, as evidenced by the similarity of the males and 
females, for instance. 
Neuroterus batatus variety batatus 
agamic form batatus (Fitch) 
Cynips Quercus-batatus Fitch, 1859, 5th Rpt. Nox. Ins. N. Y., p. 810. 
Cynips quercus batatus Osten Sacken, 1861, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., I, 
p. 71. 
Cynips quercus tuber Osten Sacken, 1861 (not Fitch, 1859!), Proc. Ent. 
Soc. Phila., I, p. 71. 
Cynips q.-batatus Osten Sacken, 1861, Ent. Zeit. Stett., XXII, pp. 410, 
414. Packard, 1890, 5th, Rpt. U.S. Ent. Conun., p. 113. 
Cynips q. batatus Bassett, 1864, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., Ill, p. 684. Walsh, 
1864, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., II, p. 493. 
Cynips batatus Osten Sacken, 1865, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., IV, pp. 340, 
344, 350, 354. Packard, 1881, U.S. Ent. Comm. Bull., VII, p. 56. 
Cynips quercus-batatus Packard, 1881, U.S. Ent. Comm. Bull., VII, 
p. 39. 
Neuroterus batata Mayr, 1881, Gen. Gallenb. Cynip., p. 37. Ashmead, 
1885, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XII, p. 296. Ashmead in Packard, 
1890, 5th Rpt. U.S. Ent. Comm., p. 107. 
Neuroterus batatus Bassett, 1882, Amer. Nat., XVI, p. 246. Ashmead, 
1887, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XIV, p. 132. Ashmead in Packard, 
1890, 5th Rpt. U.S. Ent. Comm., p. 109. Beutenmuller, 1892, Bull. 
Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., IV, p. 262, pi. XIII, fig. 1. Dalla Torre, 
1893, Cat. Hymen., II, p. 40. Dalla Torre and Kieffer, 1902, Gen. 
Ins. Hymen. Cynip., p. 50. Beutenmuller, 1904, Amer. Mus. Journ., 
IV, p. 107, fig. 41; 1904, Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. Guide Leaf., 16, p. 
21, fig. 41; 1904, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XX, p. 26. Felt, 
1905, N.Y. State Mus. Bull, 97, p. 426; 1906, Ins. Aff. Pk. and 
Woodl. Trees, II, pp. 618, 624; 1907, N.Y. State Mus. Bull., 110, 
p. 78. Beutenmuller, 1910 (in part). Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 
XXVIII, p. 117, pi. VIII, figs. 1-8. Stebbins, 1910, Springfield Mus. 
Bull., II, p. 29. Beutenmuller in Smith, 1910, Ins. N.J., p. 598. 
Felt, 1911, N.Y. State Mus. Bull., 147, p. 76. Thompson, 1915, 
Amer. Ins. Galls, pp. 6, 40, pi. 1, fig. 76. Viereck, 1916, Hymen. 
Conn., p. 384. Lutz, 1918, Fieldbook Ins., p. 464, pi. XCVIII, fig. 8. 
Felt, 1918, N.Y. State Mus. Bull., 200, pp. 56, 58, fig. 54. Britton 
1920, Conn. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv. Bull., 31, p. 319. 
Neuroterus quercus-batatus Dalla Torre and Kieffer, 1910, Das Tierreich, 
XXIV, pp. 334, 800, 825, fig. 55. 
Neuroterus batatus form batatus Kinsey, 1920, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 
Hist., XLII, pp. 335, 377, figs. 10-13. 
